This year’s national conference will help in developing a national service infrastructure for HHC with a variety of different student groups, artists and partners. This means working with more students, more artists and more communities. Workshops will include interactive discussions on Health Care, International Hip Hop, Hip Hop and Education, the future of the element of emceeing, Youth Violence and much more. In addition, each night there will be showcase featuring independent acts from Colorado like Black Pegasus, and Hip Hop Congress acts from all over the country like Dlabrie and the Jacka from the Bay Area and Alex Schein from the Midwest.

Hip Hop Congress National Conferences have taken place all across the country: San Jose, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Chicago. This year’s choice to hold the Conference in Boulder was to honor the work of the chapter in that area and to hold the conference in a region HHC has yet to do so. HHC has invited and will continue to invite partners, artists, organizers and friends of the organization from all over the country. With such an explosive year on the national and international front, this year’s conference plans to be a charged event with ripples that will felt throughout the country.

Maybe everybody else heard about this but me. However, I was surprised enough at finding out about Kanye West's recently released import only cd Late Orchestration: Live at Abbey Road Studios that I decided, what the heck, I'll feature it. I have no idea why this hasn't been more widely released. It seems like a lot of people would want to hear it.

Any thoughts on the Dixie flag image on this mixtape? I'm a bit surprised to see it there though you will occasionally see Black Southerners wearing it as, I assume, a regional signifier. Feel free to add your comments over at ProHipHop.